ASUS Finally Coughs Up Some Nexus 7 Sales Numbers

The only thing we’ve really known about the Nexus 7 numbers, as commenters like Flexhead have rightly pointed out, is that Google is happy with them. Obviously the Nexus 7 isn’t beating the iPad, but we don’t know what makes Google happy, either.

Well, we know now, because ASUS, the Taiwanese computer maker Google contracts with to make the device, has revealed how well it’s doing.

Asustek CFO David Chang told the WSJ that the company was selling—not just shipping—500,000 units a month initially, when the Nexus 7 launched in July. Figures bumped up to 600,000-700,000 in the following months, and in “this latest month,” Google and Asus have sold close to one million units, said Chang.

That’s pretty good for any piece of technology, but it’s not iPad level: Apple moves nearly five million of those a month. Also not included are the profit margins. It’s fairly obvious that ASUS isn’t losing any money on these, so Google is likely paying for them and making up the difference in media and app sales.

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I picked up the 16GB Nexus 7 in August and rooted it, I made a huge mistake. If I thought I could pawn the thing off to some sucker for $100 and buy the 32GB iPad Mini I’d do it in a heartbeat regardless of the price, low res screen and outdated hardware. I’ve switched launchers twice and removed all but four widgets but I can’t get the RAM usage over 50 percent. Safari and Apex launcher crash constantly but it’s still an improvement over the other launchers I was using before. The default keyboard seems to have trouble keeping up with my typing speed which I find extremely odd. If this is what Google considers a flagship product after four years I’m shocked Android has the market share it does.

*Can’t get the RAM usage under 50 percent.
*Chrome crashes constantly..
Yeah, I’ve been using iPhones for the past five years, that doesn’t mean I have any bias toward Android. At the very least any bias has come from three months of using the OS on one of the flagship products.